OREANDA-NEWS. In 2006 the Rosenergoatom Corporate Agreement was fulfilled. Such was the conclusion the parties to it came to during the Aug 6 REA conference in Kurchatov. The Agreement has been developed by representatives of two equal parties: the employer and the employees represented by the trade unions of the REA NPPs. The agreement serves as a basis for collective agreements, reported the press-centre of Leningrad NPP.

The present Corporate Agreement was adopted on Apr 14 2005. Since then a special committee, equally represented by both parties to the Agreement, has been constantly observing the fulfillment of the document. The Agreement regulates the systems of social security, labor protection and social guarantees.

The results of 2005 were summed up during a REA conference at Leningrad NPP on June 16 2006. And now REA officials met at Kursk NPP to sum up the results of 2006.

The head of the Trade Union of Leningrad NPP, the head of LNPP delegation A.Zaytsev has commented on the results of the conference.

“The conference was perfect in all respects. All of our NPPs were there, even Bilibino, a plant situated at the other end of our country. As was expected, the key reports were made by the acting director general of Rosenergoatom A.Lokshin and the deputy director general-director for personnel management and social security J.Tkebuchava.

The most important thing Lokshin said was that the branches of Rosenergoatom, i.e. its NPPs, will retain their status after corporization, i.e. we will not become independent legal entities but will have independence in some spheres, like building hostels for young specialists that are working at LNPP and will work at LNPP-2. As a federal state unitary enterprise, Rosenergoatom, has not authority to build housing, even temporary one. So, the reform is good for us.

Tkebuchava was optimistic and there was ground for optimism. In 2006 the wages of REA employees were raised by 26% against just 9% inflation. Certain progress was made under the housing program. However, the key point of Tkebuchava’s report was that, despite certain delay, REA has secured 600mln RUR for housing programs at all of its NPPs.

The conference was organized excellently, and, on behalf of Leningrad NPP, I would like to thank all the organizers, first of all, our colleagues from Kursk NPP, for their hospitality and efficiency.

Note
Since Apr 1 2002 Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant has been the branch of Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian State Concern for Production of Electric and Thermal Power at Nuclear Power Plants” (Rosenergoatom Concern).

On Dec 31 2006 the plant employed 6,078 people and paid them an average of 23,800 RUR a month.